TCS to hire 15,000 more by March

Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) plans to recruit up to 15,000 in this quarter which will ending March. In the last quarter TCS added 20,219 people (gross) its highest addition yet taking the company?s total headcount to 1, 86,914. Attrition was marginally up to 14.4 percent from the 14.1 percent in the second quarter of this fiscal. "Our gross hiring has touched 50,000 in the first 3 quarters. We're looking to add around 12,000 to 15,000 people in the January-March period. The majority hiring will be in India, followed by the U.S., Latin America and other Asia-Pacific countries," said Ajoyendra Mukherjee, Vice-President and Head of Global Human Resources. The company will hire around 37,000 fresh graduates from colleges. Out of this more than 23,500 offers have already been made at 171 educational institutions. The process should be complete between mid- and end-February.